Azure Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Azure Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 426 469
Rank change year-on-year +58 +43 -85
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Consultant 18 30 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.088% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 26 24
10th Percentile £479 £472 £450
25th Percentile £519 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £546 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.42% -0.68% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £622 £636
90th Percentile £658 £663 £673
UK median daily rate £585 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +8.33% -1.82% +7.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,847 22,167 29,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,464 15,534 20,562
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,241 1,145 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.57
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Azure Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Azure Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Consultant in the UK excluding London

Azure Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Consultant in the UK excluding London

Azure Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Consultant in the UK excluding London

Azure Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Consultant in the UK excluding London

Azure Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +20 7 £625 +25.00% 4
North West +19 7 £625 +25.00% 2
Midlands +26 3 £625 - 8
South West +18 3 - - 4
East of England - 3 £538 -
East Midlands +21 2 £625 +19.05% 7
South East +15 2 £441 -19.77% 1
West Midlands +22 1 £550 -3.30% 1
Azure Consultant
UK

Azure Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Azure Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Azure Consultant in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
3 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 6 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 6 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 5 (27.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (22.22%) VPN
5 4 (22.22%) DNS
5 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (22.22%) IaaS
6 3 (16.67%) PaaS
6 3 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (16.67%) Windows
6 3 (16.67%) Change Management
6 3 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (16.67%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (11.11%) Databricks
7 2 (11.11%) Conceptual Models
7 2 (11.11%) Thought Leadership
7 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
7 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
7 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.11%) Migration
7 2 (11.11%) Google
7 2 (11.11%) Use Case
7 2 (11.11%) Google Analytics
7 2 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (11.11%) Data Modelling
7 2 (11.11%) Data Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) SaaS

Azure Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 5 (27.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (22.22%) IaaS
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Pipelines
5 3 (16.67%) PaaS
6 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (11.11%) Google Analytics
6 2 (11.11%) SaaS
7 1 (5.56%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) DNS
1 4 (22.22%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) MPLS
2 1 (5.56%) PBX
2 1 (5.56%) VPLS
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
General
1 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
1 1 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Mac OS X
2 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (16.67%) Change Management
2 2 (11.11%) Analytics
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
2 2 (11.11%) Conceptual Models
2 2 (11.11%) Data Engineering
2 2 (11.11%) Data Modelling
2 2 (11.11%) Data Transformation
2 2 (11.11%) Logical Data Model
2 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
2 2 (11.11%) Migration
2 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (11.11%) Thought Leadership
2 2 (11.11%) Use Case
2 2 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (5.56%) Application Security
3 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (5.56%) Presales
3 1 (5.56%) RBAC
3 1 (5.56%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (5.56%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) PowerShell
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.56%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Databricks
2 2 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Clearswift
3 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.56%) Proofpoint
3 1 (5.56%) VMware